Peter T. Demos is an emeritus professor in the Department of Physics and the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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. A native of Peterborough, Ontario

Peterborough, Ontario

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, Demos attended Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School

Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School

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 and Queens University, and received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1951. He is a founder and former director of the Bates Linear Accelerator at MIT and served as advisor on nuclear science to John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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